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14 Jul 2014:
Second Stage Theater to bring adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's 1991 novel to New York stage
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5 May 2014:
They've been fainting in the aisles at the Globe, due to a stomach-churning production of Titus Andronicus. Michael Coveney has five more examples of the power of on-stage physical aggression
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Quiz,
10 Apr 2014:
One is Australia's former foreign minister, the other a fictional investment banker and serial killer. But both share an obsessive attention to detail about diet, exercise and lifestyle. Can you tell who said what?
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3 Jan 2014: Deborah Orr: Bret Easton Ellis's 1991 novel, which has now been reimagined as a musical, is all about making the perfect choice – and the torture of getting it wrong
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20 Dec 2013:
Unlike the film, the score used in the musical version creates a strange sense of compassion
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13 Dec 2013:
Matt Smith helps Bret Easton Ellis's murderous yuppie to make a killing, writes Michael Billington
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10 Dec 2013:
Matt Smith has ditched Doctor Who for Patrick Bateman in American Psycho. It's quite a contrast, and he's not the first to do this sort of thing. So why do actors love these big switcheroos, asks Stuart Heritage
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7 Oct 2013: Actor to star as Patrick Bateman in musical adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's tale of a banker turned serial killer
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27 Apr 2012:
Tim Minchin and Stephen Fry are among the new Cultural Olympiad acts, while protestors take to the stage at Stratford-upon-Avon and encourage audiences to rip up their seats
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13 Mar 2012: US author delights Twitter followers with multi-tweet ideas session, finishing with tentative plans to start writing
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23 Dec 2010:
Ben Myers: Good novels have a pretty inglorious history of providing 'the book' for musical adaptations, but I'm kind of intrigued to know what Broadway will make of Patrick Bateman
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17 Jul 2010:
Week four: readers' responses
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14 Jul 2010:
Sam Jordison: Critics savaged the book when it first came out in 1991 – but they didn't appreciate that serial killer Patrick Bateman is one of the funniest comic creations since Bertie Wooster
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10 Jul 2010: Week three: Bret Easton Ellis on the misreading of American Psycho
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3 Jul 2010:
Week two: the unreliable narrator
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